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Sunday, May 27, 2018

The New York Times seemed to think it was bitterly ironic that
some of the students at Santa Fe High School, site of the recent mass
shooting, had staged a walkout last month in support of the Parkland,
Florida, students. But now, only a month later, one of the students who
participated in the walkout is in the hospital from yet another school
shooting.

I suppose we could revel in the irony, but, as a more
results-oriented person, what I take from that vignette is that school
walkouts are not effective deterrents to school shootings. I'm not sure
the poems did much either.

Here are some news items that might help us figure out how to reduce the number of school shooting victims.

-- May 3, 2017, Arlington, Texas: James Jones went to the Zona
Caliente sports bar and began yelling incoherently. When the manager,
Cesar Perez, went to talk to him and calm him down, Jones pulled out a
gun and shot Perez dead, then started shooting wildly at patrons.
Luckily, a concealed carry holder happened to be having dinner at Zona
Caliente with his wife that night. He shot Jones dead before anyone else
was hurt.

-- Aug. 7, 2016, Linndale, Ohio: Two men getting into their car
in a Dollar Store parking lot were held up by a masked armed robber. As
the gunman, Varshaun Stephen Dukes, was rifling through one of the
men's pockets, the other pulled out his concealed handgun and told him
to stop. The robber fired at the man but missed. The concealed carry
permit holder shot back, putting a .45 bullet in the robber's brain.
(Naturally, he survived.) All of this was captured on the Dollar Store's
surveillance camera, so no charges were brought against the armed
citizen.

-- June 26, 2016, Lyman, South Carolina: Jody Ray Thompson
opened fire in the crowded Playoffz nightclub, injuring three. But
before he could kill anyone, he was shot in the leg by a club patron
with a concealed carry license. Police arrested Thompson without further
incident and no one died.

-- May 31, 2015, Conyers, Georgia: After arguing with a liquor
store clerk, Jeffrey Scott Pitts returned with a gun and began shooting
at everyone in the store, killing two. Todd Scott, who was there to buy a
six-pack, returned fire. The crazed gunman fled, went home and shot his
parents. "He was very surprised that he was not the only one in the
store with a gun," Scott said. Apart from the two people killed in
Pitts' opening barrage, no one died. Scott saved the lives of everyone
else in that store.

-- July 24, 2014, Darby, Pennsylvania: Felon and psychiatric
patient Richard Plotts pulled out a gun at Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital,
murdered his caseworker and wounded his psychiatrist, Dr. Lee Silverman.
He would have kept shooting -- Plotts had 39 more bullets -- but the
doctor pulled out his own gun and fired back, in violation of the
hospital's no-guns rule. No one else died.

-- Jan. 11, 2014, Portland, Oregon: After being turned away
from a strip club in Portland, repeat felon Thomas Elliott Hjelmeland
came back, wearing a clown mask, guns blazing. He hit a waitress, a
security guard and a patron before a bouncer, concealed carry permit
holder Jonathan Baer, returned fire and ended the attack. No one died.

-- Dec. 16, 2012, San Antonio, Texas: Jesus Manuel Garcia began
shooting at the Santikos Mayan Palace movie theater from a nearby
restaurant and continued shooting as he walked toward the theater. An
armed off-duty cop shot Garcia four times, stopping the attack. No one
died.

-- March 25, 2018, Boiling Springs, South Carolina: Jesse Gates
kicked in a side door of the Southside Freewill Baptist Church during
services, raised his gun to shoot -- but was grabbed and held at
gunpoint by the reverend's grandson, a concealed carry permit holder. No
one was hurt. Spartanburg County Sheriff Chuck Wright said, "I like the
fact that a concealed weapons permit holder was prepared to protect the
worshipers."

It's seems like it's been awhile since we've heard of a crazed
gunman being quickly disarmed at a school. Maybe because we've been
trying to stop mass shootings with gun-free school zones.

Here are some older school shooting cases that had comparatively happy endings.

-- In 2001, 15-year-old Charles Williams tried to shoot up his
high school in Santee, California, but luckily, an off-duty cop happened
to be bringing his daughter to school that day. He ended Williams'
rampage with his own gun, holding him until more police arrived. Two
fatalities.

-- In 1998, a 14-year-old student began shooting up a school
dance being held at a restaurant in Edinboro, Pennsylvania. The
restaurant owner pulled out a shotgun, keeping the death toll to one.

-- In 1997, a student shot several people at his high school in
Pearl, Mississippi, killing two, and was headed to the junior high,
until assistant principal Joel Myrick retrieved a .45 pistol from his
car and pointed it at the gunman's head. Another massacre averted.

-- In 1993, student Mark Duong pulled out a gun during his
disciplinary hearing at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah, wounding
three people, including the police officer, who, luckily, had been asked
to attend the hearing. The officer immediately shot the psychotic
student dead, saving the lives of everyone in the room.

We can try the walkouts, rallies, moments of silence, media
adulation, poems and fist salutes. But if the full arsenal of liberal
disapprobation doesn't stop schizophrenics from going on shooting
sprees, concealed carry laws will at least save a lot of lives.
COPYRIGHT 2018 ANN COULTER
DISTRIBUTED BY ANDREWS MCMEEL SYNDICATION

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